The report updates our 2014 report on PSVs and describes the changes in police support volunteering in the meantime.
On the basis of the findings in the report, UNISON is asking forces, the Home Office and the College of Policing for:
- Better/more transparent PSV role titles
- Greater clarification of the role of volunteers
- An end to the encroachment of volunteer roles into previously paid police staff jobs
- An updated agreement on the principle and practice of no job substation by PSVs
- Greater funding for policing going forward to ensure that forces do not have to replace paid staff with unpaid volunteers